well. inter-operability would be nice for the consumer because he would be able to migrate between one provider to another without investing into a brand new stb which are already sold at a premium. though there are major complications around this concept. first... some providers launched on mpeg2 others on mpeg4. second... antenna position i believe would be different from one player to another depending upon the satellite used? of course. the operators do not want this because all of them suffer. they make most of their money from overpriced STBs. so if they do not get to sell their STBs, they do not make money.
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rajivkrishnan
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true we save a decent cost on the STB with portability but the bottomline is, the service we port into is no better than the one we just left. at least as of now.
well the same thing also applies on mobile services. but at least there is an option. service a launches a new channel that you want but your current service (b) does not have? switch to a. service c launches a new cool plan that is cheaper than the plan on your current service (b)? switch to c. and so on!
Only solution to this is that DTH customer should be allowed to buy his own equipment. And it should be card based system. Standards of such system are already in place.Our government is so stupid there is no future planning. When DTH service was new, there was already talk of implementing mobile number portability.So they should have taken cue out of it and should have already made DTH portability mandatory and binding on DTH provider while DTH service was still new.But NO government would not do that. Now they simply put guidelines (and not rules) and leave loop holes.And even after all that government will claim.. hey there is no corruption!
well yeah. generic STBs should work. which currently they don't because every company uses their own tech for smart cards ensuring that the consumer gets stuck with a proprietary technology. as for the government... the whole concept of CAS and DTH is essentially another scam on the indian consumer. media companies probably paid bribes to the politicians to ensure that CAS and DTH are made compulsory to get around the cable guys who would allow you to run 10 TVs at your place for a fixed low monthly cost. DTH and CAS gets around this restriction ensuring that you end up paying a large amount for having multiple television sets at home. and of course, the government fooled the consumer when they claimed that CAS and DTH was being implemented to power them to pay ONLY for content that they want to pay. the idea was to lower the cable tv bill. but we are all seeing that's not happening. you could be paying as much as 600 rupees per TV depending upon your subscription plan.
rajivkrishnan
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Heh. A single channel could set you back by 200 bucks(eg. Ten Golf SD)
rajivkrishnan
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*******s.........told my tv was faulty wen picture started running vertically. i called LG engineer, he charged me 425 ,even changed parts and then he told me its stb only.......mother****ers now gave me old stb for 350 rs and now total cost of changing stb is 900 rs. due to ******* airtel dth engineer should have been 350 only:001wub:
